''Spartaeus'' is a
genus
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of Asian
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping ...
that was first described by
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Octavius P ...
in 1891.
These spiders build large sheet webs on tree trunks to capture prey, mostly moths. When walking, they wave their palps and legs in an unusual way.
The genus was renamed from ''Boethus'' in 1984 because the name was found to be preoccupied.
Species
it contains nineteen species, found only in Asia:
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Spartaeus abramovi
''Spartaeus'' is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891. These spiders build large sheet webs on tree trunks to capture prey, mostly moths. When walking, they wave their palps and legs in an unusual w ...
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Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 –
Vietnam
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Spartaeus bani
''Spartaeus'' is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891. These spiders build large sheet webs on tree trunks to capture prey, mostly moths. When walking, they wave their palps and legs in an unusual ...
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(Ikeda, 1995) –
Japan
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Spartaeus banthamus''
Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 –
Laos
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Spartaeus ellipticus''
Bao & Peng, 2002 –
Taiwan
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Spartaeus emeishan''
Zhu, Yang & Zhang, 2007 –
China
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Spartaeus forcipiformis''
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
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Spartaeus jaegeri''
Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
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Spartaeus jianfengensis''
Song & Chai, 1991 – China
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Spartaeus noctivagus''
Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
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Spartaeus pinniformis''
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
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Spartaeus platnicki''
Song, Chen & Gong, 1991 – China
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Spartaeus serratus''
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
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Spartaeus spinimanus''
(Thorell, 1878) (
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) – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (
Borneo
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,
Sumbawa
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)
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Spartaeus tengchongensis''
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
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Spartaeus thailandicus''
Wanless, 1984 – China,
Thailand
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Spartaeus triapiculus''
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
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Spartaeus uplandicus''
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 –
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
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Spartaeus wildtrackii''
Wanless, 1987 –
Malaysia
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Spartaeus zhangi''
Peng & Li, 2002 – China, Laos
References
Salticidae genera
Salticidae
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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